Winnie Madikizela Mandela Quotes

It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family.
It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.
Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.
My continent knows more about me than I do myself.
Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that place. But I always believed he would be released. It was my duty to have a home ready for us.
No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us.
One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.
Politicians are not lovers.
The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough.
The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.
The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.
The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been as a housewife.
The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands.
The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear.
There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.
They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.
This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family.
Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.
To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter.
We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Profession
Activist
BirthDate
26 September, 1936
DeathDate
02 April, 2018
Country
South Africa
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